The Daily 5
The Daily Five: Friday, 18 December, 2009
Toyota’s first hybrid; Smart Grid Market Projected to Double; Surge in Electric Cars; No Health Impact From Wind Turbines; Solar Air Purifier
Toyota’s first hybrid from 1977 This cute little sportscar had a gas turbine connected to a generator that fed an electric motor with two speeds. The concept was a one-off model built for the [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Networked EV Charging Stations; Solar Window Thermometer; 800hp concept hybrid; Mitsubishi i; Boston-Power Teams Up With Saab, Swedes for Electric Cars
First Networked EV Charging Station Installed in Canada Coulumb Technologies was due to open Canadian charging stations in the first quarter of 2009. It looks like they fell a little behind schedule, but the first [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Penny Saved Is Penny Earned: Unplug Reminder; Lowe’s Markets Home Energy; Mayor Bloomberg Looks to Danish Offshore Windfarms; Mercedes-Benz begins testing electric SLS supercar; Copenhagen Lights Christmas Tree With Bikes
Penny Saved Is Penny Earned: Unplug Reminder The Ace Plug is like an eco-voice that makes sure you do a job out of it; otherwise it [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Plug-in Prius; Plastic Wrap from CO2; Geothermal waste into lithium; Green roofs suck CO2; “Smart” grid utility problems
Toyota aiming for a plug-in Prius in 2 years Toyota Motor said Monday that it plans to begin commercial sales of its first plug-in hybrid vehicle in about two years, aiming to meet growing demand for fuel-efficient cars. [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 14 December, 2009
Energy efficiency displays; Carbon Storage on Public Lands; Stoplight Timer for red lights; Honda P-NUT compact; Reduced-cost lithium-ion battery
Millions of homes to get energy efficiency displays The days of learning about your electricity consumption once a month are the on the wane. Driven by consumer interest in energy and utility smart-grid programs, home energy information [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 11 December, 2009
Solar Power System Tracks the Sun; Chevy Volts to arrive early?; Green Products at CES; Fuel cell boat; AT&T Sustainability Advisory Council
Solar Power System Tracks the Sun Mendocino College in Ukiah, California, will now be saving $14.9 million in electricity costs over the next 25 years, thanks to a just-installed solar power system with sun-tracking [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Solar plant in Md; Bolivia has Enough Lithium; Deep-Seawater Air Conditioning System; U.S. Patent Office to Speed Up Process for Green Companies; Audi e-tron
Constellation to build solar plant in Md. Constellation Energy Group, Inc. said Tuesday it would build a solar power plant in Maryland that will be the state’s largest when completed in 2012.
Bolivia [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 09 December, 2009
Electric VW Golf MK VII; Buses Bring Silence to the Streets; Solar Powered Racing Car; DOE offers $100 million; Recharging EVs with Wind
VW Golf MK VII could get electricified The new MK VI Golf has only just gone on sale here in North America but VW engineers are already hard at work on the [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 08 December, 2009
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights; Drive for geothermal power heats up; Oregon Wave Project; Fisker Karma Launch in 2010; Solar Powered Shoes
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights The folks behind Yanko Design are always thinking, and lately their thoughts are stuck on solar and renewable energy gadgets. The latest design, a hand-crank, “Eco-Twinkle Light” takes the idea of [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 07 December, 2009
Prius one of Top 10 Innovations; Wind Turbines Have No Significant Impact on Property; Electric Cars Without a Gas Tax Hike; Philadelphia shows it pays to recycle; Green Car of Year Is a Diesel Again
Prius one of Top 10 Innovations of the Decade Ever since its U.S. introduction in 2000, the fuel-sipper has come to [...]
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